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...Pentagon's proposed cutback was the timing of its announcement. Bush has become adept at letting the most conservative Cabinet members announce liberal-sounding policy changes that could anger the Republican right. It thus fell to Cheney to disclose that the Pentagon is examining conventional-weapons cuts that would go beyond Bush's plan, unveiled at last May's NATO summit, to reduce U.S. and Soviet forces to 275,000 each. Some Pentagon officials are worried that the talk about reducing defense spending could, in the words of one, give some allies "a green light for their own cuts...
...aides, "I want a Camp David atmosphere on that ship." To work his magic free of prying eyes and ears, he has ordered reporters to stay far from the U.S. cruiser Belknap and the Soviet cruiser Slava. "He wants to be able to get up from the table and go for a walk with Gorbachev around the ship if he wants to," said a senior official...
...vehemently insists that contrary to reports, it was he, not Mason, who made the decision last month to continue a federal ban on research in fetal-cell transplants, overruling the recommendation of an NIH committee that the research be continued. But there is no question that a decision to go forward with the research, which holds promise for finding new treatments for Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and diabetes, would have provoked a fierce test of wills between Sullivan and Administration pro-lifers, who oppose the use of fetal tissue in medical research...
...Thomas and St. John were ready for visitors. While the government boosted its advertising budget 54%, hoteliers even offered guests a money-back guarantee. "Everyone who comes down now is a town crier," says Tom Bennett of the St. Thomas-St. John Hotel Association. "We want them to go back and say how pleased they were...
...with his perfect, idiomatic Berliner Deutsch and his deep knowledge of levels of murk and treachery on both sides of the Wall, is suddenly out of date. As are, an optimist dutifully believes, many thousands of border guards, KGB head beaters and assassins in the real world. Espionage will go on, of course, but presumably it will be of the corporate kind, waged among Japan, Korea and the European Community, which is apt to | include Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, what used to be called East Germany, and (as an associate member) what remains of the Soviet Union. Will thriller fans line...